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• Nickname	Mike
  Birth	1864?	Canada
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 Feb 1914	St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, USA
  Person ID	I1029	Default
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2010
  Father	Michael Ryder,   b. 1828, Camcloon Beg, Burrishoole parish, Newport, County Mayo, Ireland ,   d. 9 Nov 1877, St. Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada
  Mother	Rose Joyce,   b. 1837, Swinford, County Mayo, Ireland ,   d. 20 Mar 1885, St. Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F32	Group Sheet
  Family	Jennie Wischek,   b. Aug 1867, Wisconsin, USA
  Married	13 Mar 1894	St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, USA
  Notes	Married: St. Paul Daily Globe, 18 Mar 1894 Marriage Licenses: Michael Ryder and Jennie Witcik St. Paul Globe, 15 Nov 1900 Births Mrs. Michael Ryder, city hospital, girl St. Paul Globe, 7 Oct 1902 Births Mrs. Michael Ryder, city hospital, boy (ed. note -- Albert)
  Children	1. John J. Ryder,   b. 1905, Minnesota, USA   2. Albert Ryder,   b. 1 Oct 1902, Minnesota, USA ,   d. 2 Feb 1941, St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, USA
  Last Modified	03 Feb 2010
  Family ID	F830	Group Sheet

• Event Map		Event Married - 13 Mar 1894 - St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, USA Died - 26 Feb 1914 - St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, USA  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Raised by Michael and Rose Ryder, but may have been a nephew or other relative, not a son. When he died in 1914, John J. Ryder identified his parents as John Ryder and Mary Fallon. St. Catharines Evening Journal, 10 Sep 1873: Michael Ryder and Patrick Barrett, each aged 8, and Wm. Wullivan aged 11, were charged with having stolen a number of bottles from Giles & Helliwell yesterday morning. The evidence was sufficient to convict the two first, who were sentenced to two weeks jail at hard labor. Sullivan was discharged. St. Catharines Daily Times, 10 Sep 1873 Police Court: Two boys named Pat Barrett and Mike Reader for stealing bottles from Giles & Helliwell, got two weeks in jaol. Wm. Sullivan arrested on the same complaint, was let go. St. Catharines Weekly News, 11 Sep 1873: Michael Ryder, Patrick Barrett, and Wm. Sullivan were charged with stealing bottles from Giles & Helliwell's on Tuesday the 9th inst. They all pleaded not guilty. The boys are aged the first two 8 years, and the last 11. The evidence was sufficient against Ryder and Barrett and they were found guilty and sentenced to two weeks gaol at hard labor with a warning that if again brought up they would be sent to Reformatory Prison. There being no evidence against Sullivan he was discharged. ======================================== St. Paul Daily Globe, 25 Dec 1894 Michael Ryder and his wife Jennie were arraigned in the police court yesterday, charged with stealing an overcoat belonging to Mr. Bentcliff, of Winnipeg. Mrs. Ryder was discharged, as there was no evidence that she was a party to the theft. Mr. Ryder will be tried tomorrow. St. Paul Globe, 20 Nov 1896 Michael Ryder was arrested yesterday by Detectives Daly and Sweeney at the request of Minneapolis officers. Ryder, who was formerly a hackman, but has been out of the city for the past nine months, was taken to Minneapolis last evening by Detective Morrisey. Ryder is charged with having passed two forged checks on Fred Woods, proprietor of the Gem hotel, Minneapolis, in February last. The first check was for $12.50, and was made payable to Merrill Ryder, of St. Paul. Ryder, it is alleged, signed M. Ryder on the back and received the money. The second check was for $25, and purported to be signed by John Whalen, a business man on First avenue south, Minneapolis. Both checks were afterwardes found to be forgeries. Ryder refused to talk about the case. The enterprising forger whose business was gone, so far as St. Paul is concerned, when the Globe told about his operations here, went to Minneapolis and met with success. He worked the same game of rushing into the store without his coat and hat and representing himself as an employe of a neighboring store who desired a little accommodation. He presented a check for $45, properly signed and seemingly all right. The check was taken, the young man departed, and in a short time the check proved to be a forgery. St. Paul Globe, 9 Jan 1897 The three jail breakers, Jack Quinn, Michael Ryder and Frank Frost, who silently left their confinement in the quiet watches of Wednesday night, were captured about 8 o'clock yesterday morning in a dilapidated building in the vicinity of Fort Snelling. The fleeing criminals were taken by Sergeant Allen and patrolmen Casewell and Olson, of the South side station. The arrest of the trio was consequent upon information given police headquarters by a street car conductor on the Minnehaha line. Early yesterday morning, as his car was preparing to leave for the city, he noticed three suspicious characters hanging about the place, and from their apparent desire to avoid being seen he concluded they might be the much-sought criminals. A message was sent to street railway headquarters, who, in turn, communicated with the police, and the South side officers detailed men to run the three men to earth. They went to the place, but found it deserted, being informed by residents that the men had followed the railroad tracks in the direction of Fort Snelling. the police pursued their hunt. Some railroad men directed them to the abandoned building, and an entrance was forced without warning to the ones within. "Boys, you may as well come along quietly. We have the drop on you, and if you resist it will be all the worse for you." The three within being taken by surprise made no show of resistance. They were reposing quietly on the floor. "Who the ---- is going to resist?" was the answer of Quinn, who was the first to speak. "The jig is up, and I guess we known when we are well off. Don't worry yourself. We will give you no trouble, and I could not walk further anyway," he concluded. They were taken to the depot and brought to the southtown junction by the first train, reaching here about 11 o'clock. From there they were temporarily removed to the South side police station, and later transferred to the county jail. It looked as though they were glad to be back in warm quarters again. Quinn's feet were quite badly frozen, and except for that they claim that the police would never again have seen them. They were particularly pleased with the announcement that their escape had made a sensation, and were disposed to regard their venture as a huge joke. Judge Belden left orders with the sheriff as soon as he learned of the capture of the jailbreakers, that they be brought before him in his court room at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The prisoners, looking much the worse for wear, were brought in handcuffed, through Judge Belden's chambers, the crowd being too dense to get them through the other way. Quinn was first called, and he limped to the bar with his frozen feet... Mike Ryder was called to the bar and had his case set for trial Jan. 15. He pleaded not guilty some days ago. All the prisoners were remanded. They had not had a bite of food from the time they left the jail until they reached the South Side station. The boys took their arrest quietly, for they were too tired and weak to make any resistance. At noon, however, they were all quite talkative, and related with eagerness the details of their experience. Jack Quinn said: "We were speedier than you newspaper fellows gave us credit for. You said we went down the stairs in the new part of the building, but we didn't. We just slid down the iron pillars from one floor to the next. The stiars was too slow for us, you bet. If we had made a slip, though, it would have been good-bye for good to fall from any of the upper stories. Well, when we got out we made a sneak right off for South Minneapolis. We figured on getting out into the suburbs near Fort Snelling, and catching a Milwaukee freight train for Chicago, but we thought it would be better to lay low yesterday and we did. "We sneaked into a barn at Thirty-first street and Twenty-first avenue south and slept there all day yesterday. We had two guns planted down town, but we did not want to risk trying to get them." Deputy Sheriff Clements stated yesterday that the boys had assured him that the work of preparing the bars for the escape had all ben done under the last administration and that they were simply waiting for a chance to make a concerted escape. No chance as favorable as they wanted came and they selected the night before they were to be tried, knowing it would probably be the last chance of any kind they would have. The capture of the men created great excitement bout the city, and crowds of visitors thronged the jail all the afternoon, asking to see the prisoners, but no one was admitted to the cell rooms, and few gained access even to the jail office. St. Paul Globe, 13 Nov 1897 Michael Ryder, now in the penitentiary, serving time for forgery and attempted jail breaking, is in earnest in his desire to have a portion of his sentence commuted by the pardoning board. He has engaged an attorney, and has told him his story. T.A. Garrity, the attorney who will present the case, was at Stillwater Thursday to take Ryder's story, from which he has made an affidavit, and sent over for Ryder to sign. In the affidavit Ryder is very explicit as to how the escape was planned. He claims that the jailers never told either him, Quinn or Frost anything about the possibility of escaping, but that the plan was to be effected with Alaric Langton, who has since died at Stillwater. Ryder claims that one day while Langton's wife was present, one of the jailers came to Langton's cell, and there held a lengthy conversation. In that conversation he outlined to Langton, who was the shrewdest man in the jail at the time, how easy it would be to escape from the jail, and went on illustrating the very plan which had been carried out by the trio that did escape. Ryder says that neither Quinn or Frost heard the conversation, but that they were afterwards let in. Ryder even mentions the name of the jailer involved. According to Ryder's story, Langton would not go into the scheme, for at that time he was not convicted, and was very certain that he would be able to escape the consequences of his crime by an acquittal. He remained in jail, but kept quiet while the others carried out the scheme, which worked so well. St. Paul Globe, 11 Jan 1898 Michael Ryder, of Hennepin county. Crime, forgery in third degree. Sentenced to stat prison Jan. 27, 1897 for four and a half years. Continued until April meeting. 1900 Census, St. Paul Ward 4, District 92, Ramsey County, Minnesota Household headed by Michael Ryder, born May 1866 in Canada, both parents born in Canada, immigrated to U.S. in 1885, occupation Hack Driver. Wife Jennie, born August 1867 in Wisconsin, both parents born in Germany. Married 6 years. 1910 Census, Minneapolis, Ward 4, District 66, Hennepin County, Minnesota Household headed by Michael Ryder, 40 yo, born in Canada, both parents born in Canada, immigrated to U.S. in 1876, occupation driver at a livery. Wife Jennie, 34 yo, father born in Germany, mother born in Ireland. Son Albert, 8 yo, born in Minnesota. Minnesota Certificate of Death Michael Ryder, 45 yo, occupation hack driver. Passed away 26 Feb 1914. Cause of death: "Illuminating gas poisoning. Accidental turning on of gas jets in gas store." Place of death: 54 W. 10th Street, St. Paul. Born in Minnesota. Buried at Calvary, 28 Feb 1914. Father was John Ryder, born in Ireland. Mother was Mary Fallon, born in Ireland. Informant: John J. Ryder, Omaha, Nebraska. From Louise Comfort Dewitt email 2001: "Michael Ryder "Uncle Mike" was born 1871, a Hack Driver in St. Paul.He had an unfortunate marriage,had two children Albert Ryder and John. Michael had a drinking problem and was found dead. His wife was later found murdered. I don't remember what happened to Albert, but Jack Ryder and Agness took him in after the deaths of his parents and brother Albert. John fell out of the back of a truck and was killed when he was abt 15/16..The Ryder family never had anything to do with Michael's wife.From the stories that were told to me, she did not have a good reputation. So the story goes Mike was drinking heavily one night and woke up in her bed.Being a good Irishman, he did the noble thing and married her.But who knows what really happened."